Cools
Cools is a townland in the civil parish of Aghadoe, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry.
- Area
- 152.5 ha
- 377 acres
- Land parcels
- 80
- registered freehold, median 3,388 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
80 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cools, from 16 m² to 223,377 m² (22.34 ha, 55.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cools in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
12 Jun 2026N/a
(A) Planning Permission to construct a new dwelling house consisting of part two storey and part single storey, (B) Planning permission to construct a domestic garage, (C) Planning Permission to install a septic tank and polishing filter unit and all site development works
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2699
18 Mar 2026N/a
(a) Retention permission to retain the existing partially completed first floor extension and (b) Planning permission to complete the first floor extension, Inclusive of all ancillary drainage, site works and landscaping.
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660235
16 Apr 2025Conditional
(1) Retention Permission to retain existing dwelling house as constructed and (2) Permission to decommission existing septic tank and percolation area and install a new effluent treatment tank and polishing filter and all ancillary services and areas
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560298
26 Mar 2024Conditional
Full Planning Permission to (1) Change the use and alter existing building from use as stables to 2 no. 1 Bedroom residences for the purpose of short-term tourist accommodation, (2) Install new wastewater treatment system to serve the proposed 2 no. residences with all associated site services.
Permission, 2 homes · Kerry County Council, 2460178
20 Dec 2023Conditional
Retention Permission to retain existing dwelling house and septic tank as constructed
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360440
13 Jul 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DISUSED DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALL A NEW MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23798
18 Apr 2023Conditional
(A) DEMOLISH EXISTING POST OFFICE BUILDING (B) CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE IN THE SAME LOCATION. (C) INSTALL A NEW TREATMENT UNIT AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER UNIT AND ALL SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23418
2 Feb 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE SERVED BY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2390
1 Feb 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, CONNECTION TO A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT, POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2169
15 Jul 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATION AREA, ANCILLARY SERVICES AND AREAS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20631
4 Feb 2020Conditional
DEMOLISH THE EXISTING SHED AND TO CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2081
11 Dec 2019N/a
DEMOLISH EXISTING SHED AND TO CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES
Permission · Kerry County Council, 191255
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
Recorded monuments
- KE067-043001 Souterrain
Description
In rough pasture, with views SE to The Paps of Dana. In the 1930s Capt. D. B. O'Connell recorded a souterrain here (SMR file). There are no visible remains of this possible souterrain. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011
- KE067-043002 Cist
Description
In rough pasture, with views SE to The Paps of Dana. In the 1930s Capt. D. B. O'Connell recorded a cist here (SMR file). There are no visible remains of this cist. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011
- KE067-044 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, on a S-facing slope with views SE to the Paps of Dana. The cropmark of a pear-shaped enclosure (c. 120m N-S; c. 80m E-W) is visible on an aerial photograph (GSIAP, W 18-17) taken in 1973. This enclosure is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cools.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Cools, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cools.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cools with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Cools
- Area
- 1,525,216 m² (152.52 ha, 376.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghadoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Magunihy
- Electoral division
- Headfort, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,047 people lived in 353 households in the Headfort electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 53% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Headfort, Knockanes, Knockanimrish, Knockeennagowan, Shronedarragh
- Placenames
- Cools on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.